Martha Gellhorn Quotes
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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My hunger is always there.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
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I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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Nature hates calculators.
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Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
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They know too many things they should not know and they do not know some things they need to know.
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There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.
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I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.
